You were supposed to be the fucking CHOSEN ONE
Don’t stake your hopes on anyone or any entity and you will never be disappointed
There are only those companies for whom the incentives to betray you aren’t yet high enough. Either the incentives become high enough for the chosen company to betray you, or the incentives become enough for another company with enough money to buy the chosen company and betray you…or bury the chosen company in the hopes that you’ll open yourself to being betrayed or exploited by the other company.
Welcome to unfettered/unregulated capitalism aka the natural end result that capitalism pushes society towards.
Nothing already lost me when they put a tiny, useless OLED screen on the back of their flagship and called it innovation. They had something really great with the Glyph lights for two generations, so of course they ditched that technology completely.
Not even Unihertz put Facebook garbage on their new Titan 2 phone. And they also have an OLED on the back. A much bigger one. For a fraction of the price.
Ratchet mechanism of enshittification: click
Oh good, one less phone to consider.
I would literally sooner intentionally install malware in my phone than anything from Meta.
Bruh. This is truly surprising. I feel like for a phone like this, it must be like 90% of the target market that would hate this? Seems like an unimaginably bad business decision. Of course, if FB gave them enough money, then this is kinda like taking a bribe to stop competing.
They are pivoting to a new customer base, people who are vaguely aware privacy is a concern but aren’t capable of figuring out nothing phones are a scam.
FUCK THAT
Looks like nothing I want to waste money on.
Wait they are monetizing this hard so soon? They barely launched the brand
Shareholder pressure? Asshole CEO that masked who he was so far? Who can say. Seems to be the general trend now though.
Nothing could have been Something.
So it is oficially a shitphone.
This is a major bummer. I was kinda rooting for them to be the OEM that GOS would be working with.
LMAO, lol even. Nothing 3 had shit hardware for the price, I was hoping it wouldn’t be them.
Oh? TIL. I guess if they’ve ruled out fairphone and nothing is as bad as you say, maybe it’s a larger player. Can’t think of many other small ones.
Moto seems like a contender. Or one of the Chinese players like Oneplus or Xiaomi, they are also looking for an edge over the market.
Personally I think it’ll be one of the bigger Chinese OEMs. Their phones have gotten a lot better recently, and security is pretty much the only thing they’re lacking. A move like this would perfectly fit some of their strategies.
We’ll see what happens. I’m enjoying analyzing the market to speculate which company it may be.
Before reading this, it would have never occurred to me that anyone even considered this possibility. And thank God it’s not happening. Their phones are abysmal dogshit.
Thanks for reporting it. I was eyeing a 3a phone, but no more.
Wow they’ve fallen hard in the last 24 hours
Can they even be removed with adb?
I’m sure they can, it’s just sad to see they’re giving such a sleazy company a spot on every phone no matter what. Also, who knows what type of system access Facebook has been given to track us. They track people even if they don’t have a fb acct.
i knew they was fake as shit bro
Disappointing.
I bought one of their phones nearly a year ago. The UI was… Not great, IMO, but I was able to re-skin it. The SD card slot was the biggest reason for me. Well, now I know taht my next phone is going to be a Pixel with Graphene installed.
Yes, come over to the dark side. I haven’t had any issues so far, except for the whiplash it is to go from YouTube I scrolled for hours every day to using NewPipe which takes two seconds to load a new video. It has made me very mindful of what I want to watch because from searching to watching I need to wait like 10 seconds.
Haven’t dipped my toes into banking apps though. Thats a frontier I’ll deal with when I get to it.
Haven’t tried NewPipe yet. I currently use YouTube for specific videos, and I’m usually operating it from a private tab in my browser through a VPN, rather than the app. (So far I’m not getting served ads that way, although sometimes I have to skip to different countries to get around sign-in nags.)
Banking apps are the one thing that worries me. My prior bank didn’t allow rooted phones to be used for online banking; I haven’t made an attempt with my current phone. Given that I now live in a… Rather remote part of the country, access to online banking is fairly important.
Would a website know if you’re using a rooted phone? I don’t think so. Banking apps are different, they might have access to device details but I thought browsers were device agnostic.
The problem is that the website doesn’t allow some of the critical features that the app allows, such as depositing checks. IIRC there are a few things that I was trying to do–link accounts for payments, I think?–where I had to use the banking app.
It is really worrying how a traditionally lethargic service, banking, is also moving to non-privacy respecting methods. I thought we’d be able to fix this internet panopticon shitshow before banks moved fully to apps.
